Dynamics 365 Finance: Globalization Studio - Create faster XAF audit files for Netherlands

In the current release wave, we are introducing the following regulatory reporting enhancements:

Performance improvements for Audit File Financial (XAF) – Netherlands

Dutch customers can generate the mandatory XAF export significantly faster, even for large data volumes.

This enhancement uses optimized data storage and the latest XAF 4.0 format to reduce processing time and system load when producing audit files. It ensures compliance with the Dutch Tax Administration’s newest digital audit requirements by supporting XAF 4.0, which replaces the legacy XAF 3.2 standard.

This performance enhancement is achieved through two key improvements:

Leveraging the new General ledger dimension set balance calculation : The Audit File Financial report now takes advantage of the Performance enhancement for general ledger dimension set balance calculation feature in Dynamics 365 Finance. When this feature is enabled, the system precalculates and continuously updates ledger balances for defined financial dimension sets in the background (through a process automation job that runs every few minutes).

Reports that use financial dimension sets (like the XAF report) can then pull data from these prea…